Car Seat News Clip

With Michigan's new booster seat law going into effect, channel 8 did a nice piece on getting your seats checked and I'm in it several times. If you'd like to take a peak you can see the video here:

http://video.woodtv.com/?video_id=12741

I'm the one in brown with navy blue capri's. :-)

Hi California Cousins & a foster kitty

Just wanted to say hi to all our relatives in California. From all the phone calls it sounds like everyone is having a great time. So here's a picture of John and Randy saying hi to Mom and Dad, Uncle Frank and Aunt Sharon, Sandy, Lori and families. And of course I say hi as well but someone had to take the picture. :-)

And who is John holding? No that's not our cat Teddy. About a month ago, our neighbors came over because they found a cat playing in there bushes. It was an adorable orange tiger who was really friendly. Seemed well cared for so we left it being hoping it would find it's way back to where it belonged. Today John calls me from Lisa's house down the street and said he had a really friendly orange tiger come up to him while working in the yard. I go over and sure enough it's the same cat. So, John and I decided to house it in the garage over night with food water and a safe place to sleep and tomorrow John will take it to our vet to see if it has a microchip and if it doesn't, we'll then bring it to the humane society. This little one is super sweet, purrs almost nonstop and really wants to be in the house. Would make anyone a wonderful pet.

Hopefully we'll have a happy ending to this story very soon!

Storms

The last couple days we've had some pretty severe weather. Lots of rain, wind, thunder and lightning. I got caught driving in some downpours Friday afternoon that created horrible visibilities. I've driven in winter storms where I could see better than on Friday with the sheets of rain coming down.

Saturday evening we got another set that came through and we could see the storms moving in from our front porch. John went and sat outside to watch them, and while I'm not a storm person I ventured out with the camera to get a few pictures. We did get quite a show with the clouds moving and large bolts of lightening. With my little Kodak camera it was hard to get any really good shots. Most of them turned out pretty dark like this one, which has been lightened significantly in Photoshop so you can see a little detail:

However as I was taking a few pictures, several huge bolts of lightning struck and made this picture look like it was broad daylight, when it really was quite dark out. This picture was seriously taken just moments after the one above.

And then this picture was my crowning moment, I actually captured a lightning bolt. It's the only one out of probably 30 that I took that showed the actual lightning.

And then finally one of us storm watchers. John took this and he looks very serious but I love how the picture turned out.

Stay safe everyone!!